[buro9]

Er... holy shit to the thought that (Alexa|Assistant|Siri) + Neilsen (or just by Google) could monitor advert viewing in millions of homes.

[taneq]

I thought a few apps had been discovered over the years that fingerprinted TV ads played near the phone and reported them?

https://www.howtogeek.com/338409/hundreds-of-smartphone-apps...

[jsjohnst]

To scare you further, multiple brands and models of “SmartTVs” have the ability to fingerprint what is displayed on the screen and report back to a cloud service. Said services are also, not surprisingly, poorly secured.